Originally Posted by
Good Beer
Funny that your argument hinges on protecting the flying of a very small number of super senior pilots at the expense of every pilot at the current and future FDA's (MD11 HKG is coming regardless). The opportunity afforded to those who want go live in Germany for 4.9 years in my mind outweighs the 60+ year olds padding their FF numbers with Delta. BTW it has been repeatedly stated that Airbus SIBA would continue out of Paris with the 757 in CGN.
As far as requiring less pilots to staff an FDA, you are right it would. But seeing as how we are hiring, and should be for a while (unless Glenn Beck is right and the up-down-squeeze-in-out or whatever he talks about is around the corner) thats a mute point because if this is voted down, new hires will be going to HKG and they'll know full well what their getting into.......right.
Good Beer(or should I say MEC proxy/ MEC member),
You do a nice job of isolating an opposing view here, but your argument about what happens to the super senior pilots still does not hold water.
It's a seniority system. What do you think will happen when Airbus SIBA and Sweetheart Senior International MD-11 trips no longer exist. If international trips cease to be worth the hassle the these pilots will take the best domestic trips and those domestic flyers who thought this T/A would not effect them will get their taste.
I am saying "no" to this T/A because I can't endorse the degredation in my bidpack for just 3%. I know the company needs to operate as efficiently as possible but my price is a little higher. also, I think you meant "moot" not "mute". Feel free to bash my spelling and run on sentences. gotta run.